Bison original jun 2010 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With Final Innings Dean Sullivan concludes his four-volume documentary history of baseball, whose three earlier volumes have been called 'a broad array of illuminating and often unexpected materials' (Sports Collectors Digest), 'an invaluable reference tool' (Newark Star-Ledger), and a 'fascinating collection' (Washington Post), in which 'ancient myths are shattered and new facts are uncovered' (USA Today Baseball Weekly).Culling the most pertinent, newsworthy, and just plain curious stories from newspapers and periodicals, and putting each into context, Sullivan constructs an informative and entertaining account of Major League baseball from 1972 through 2008. The 105 essays cover key topics such as George Steinbrenner's purchase of the Yankees, the first free-agent draft, the coming of lights to Wrigley Field, the cancellation of the World Series in 1994, and the BALCO steroid probe. They also bring to light lesser-known gems like the rise of sabermetrics and the federal injunction against team owners in 1995. Offering a you-are-there view of the events that made baseball into the game we know today, this book gives readers a chance to go back and experience baseball's recent history as it happened and was reported by many of the game's finest writers and most prominent voices. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fort Leavenworth, where Roger J. Spiller taught the army's finest for twenty-five years, is indeed a 'school of war.' There, among military professionals who had experienced war firsthand, Spiller honed his remarkable skills as an analyst and historian, scholar and teacher-skills that have made him one of the best-known and respected military historians of our day. This volume brings together Spiller's original and thought-provoking explorations of wars big and small and armies glorified and ignored. For each of these essays-whether on urban warfare or the Vietnam syndrome, battlefield psychology or the making of military history, and underrated vs.overrated generals-Spiller revisits his topic and his thinking, bringing fresh insight and a new context to an incomparable body of work. In the School of War further reveals the complex relationship between past and present in an understanding of the nature of war.…